raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer

raylib began as a simple and easy-to-use graphics library to teach graphics programming. Over 12 years it has become one of the most popular C open-source graphics libraries in software world, supporting more than 20 platforms and operating systems, with bindings for over 60 programming languages. Remarkably, raylib is still actively developed and maintained by a single person: its original author.

In this talk, we will explore this 12-year adventure directly from its creator. We will look at how the library has evolved, how a tools ecosystem and community has been formed around it, what challenges and decisions shaped raylib direction and how the project has influenced the creator’s life. This is the story of a passionate open-source adventure.